Amazon EC2 Contract Job Trends in the South East

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Amazon EC2 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 169 168 194
Rank change year-on-year -1 +26 +9
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 12 12 16
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.29% 0.30% 0.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.91% 0.99% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 9 14
10th Percentile £282 £321 £263
25th Percentile £300 £418 £291
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £638 £525
Median % change year-on-year -16.86% +21.43% -8.42%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £538
90th Percentile £726 £825 £543
England median daily rate £525 £650 £544
% change year-on-year -19.23% +19.54% -9.38%

All Cloud Skills
South East

Amazon EC2 falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,322 1,211 1,495
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 31.55% 30.67% 28.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 907 826 1,032
10th Percentile £204 £263 £207
25th Percentile £360 £406 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £519 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.18% -1.24% -
75th Percentile £575 £638 £625
90th Percentile £669 £675 £688
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 21 39
10th Percentile £12.50 £18.50 £18.53
25th Percentile £14.75 £20.75 £20.25
Median hourly rate £18.94 £29.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.71% +7.41% +35.00%
75th Percentile £40.65 £53.75 £57.81
90th Percentile £92.30 £64.73 £73.56
England median hourly rate £26.00 £32.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -20.00% +30.00% +11.11%

Amazon EC2
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Amazon EC2 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Amazon EC2 job vacancy trend in the South East

Amazon EC2
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Amazon EC2.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Amazon EC2

Amazon EC2
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon EC2 in the South East over the 6 months to 2 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon EC2 in the South East

Amazon EC2
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Amazon EC2 within the South East region over the 6 months to 2 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Thames Valley +4 5 £475 -25.49% 7
Hampshire -2 5 £635 +11.89% 2
Berkshire 0 2 - - 3
Oxfordshire - 2 £300 - 3
Surrey +1 1 - -
Buckinghamshire +1 1 £650 -9.57% 1
Amazon EC2
England

Amazon EC2
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (25.00%) Apache
1 3 (25.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 12 (100.00%) AWS
2 10 (83.33%) Amazon S3
3 9 (75.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 5 (41.67%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (41.67%) Serverless
5 4 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 3 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (25.00%) GitHub
6 3 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (16.67%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (16.67%) AWS CodePipeline
8 1 (8.33%) Amazon ECR
8 1 (8.33%) Amazon ELB
8 1 (8.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 1 (8.33%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) DNS
1 1 (8.33%) HTTP
1 1 (8.33%) Internet
1 1 (8.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (8.33%) Relational Database
3 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (50.00%) Git
2 3 (25.00%) Bitbucket
2 3 (25.00%) Gradle
2 3 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (25.00%) Maven
General
1 7 (58.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Developer
2 4 (33.33%) Java Developer
3 3 (25.00%) Senior
3 3 (25.00%) Technical Specialist
4 2 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Architect
5 1 (8.33%) AWS Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Backend Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Lead
5 1 (8.33%) Lead DevOps
5 1 (8.33%) Lead DevOps Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Python Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Backend Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Senior DevOps
5 1 (8.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Python Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Site Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) RESTful
1 4 (33.33%) Spring
1 4 (33.33%) Spring Boot
2 3 (25.00%) AngularJS
3 2 (16.67%) REST
4 1 (8.33%) Django
4 1 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (8.33%) FastAPI
4 1 (8.33%) Flask
4 1 (8.33%) Kafka
4 1 (8.33%) OAuth
4 1 (8.33%) OAuth2
4 1 (8.33%) OpenAPI
4 1 (8.33%) OpenID
4 1 (8.33%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (8.33%) Cyberattack
2 1 (8.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 8 (66.67%) Containerisation
3 7 (58.33%) DevOps
3 7 (58.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (58.33%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (50.00%) Agile
5 5 (41.67%) Infrastructure Automation
5 5 (41.67%) Microservices
6 4 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
6 4 (33.33%) Incident Response
7 3 (25.00%) Data Protection
7 3 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
7 3 (25.00%) OO
7 3 (25.00%) OOP
7 3 (25.00%) Project Management
7 3 (25.00%) Resilience Testing
7 3 (25.00%) Technical Analysis
8 2 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
8 2 (16.67%) High Availability
8 2 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) Java
2 3 (25.00%) SQL
3 2 (16.67%) Python
4 1 (8.33%) Bash
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 3 (25.00%) AWS Certification
2 3 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (8.33%) Degree
3 1 (8.33%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (33.33%) NIST
2 1 (8.33%) GDPR
2 1 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 7 (58.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (75.00%) Terraform
2 5 (41.67%) Ansible
2 5 (41.67%) Kubernetes
3 3 (25.00%) Grafana
4 2 (16.67%) Prometheus
4 2 (16.67%) Puppet
5 1 (8.33%) Argo
5 1 (8.33%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) JDA
2 1 (8.33%) PagerDuty
2 1 (8.33%) Red Hat